Drunk Troy man leads police on high-speed chase with 7-year-old son in car

TROY -- A 26-year-old city man faces a host of charges, including driving while intoxicated, after he led police on a high-speed chase up Pawling Avenue Saturday afternoon with his 7-year-old child in the car.

According to the arrest report, Andy Sousie of Pawling Avenue was wanted for an alleged larceny at Price Chopper. When Troy police officers attempted to pull him over, he sped away, driving through numerous red lights and into oncoming traffic.

During the chase, Sousie drove at two police vehicles -- one driven by a Troy K-9 handler and one by a state trooper. He also drove his vehicle onto the sidewalk toward pedestrians and hit a retaining wall and porch on Pawling Avenue.

Sousie rammed his car into a state police vehicle that was parked in such a way to protect pedestrians. After getting hit, the trooper got out and tried to remove Sousie from his vehicle, but Sousie continued to drive away with the officer in the doorway of his vehicle. Sousie was forcibly removed from the vehicle and continued to resist officers until he was brought to the ground and restrained.

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The 7-year-old boy was given to his mother.

Sousie is charged with felony DWI under Leandra's Law and felony criminal mischief; reckless

driving, driving while ability impaired by drugs, endangering the welfare of a child, reckless endangerment, unlawful fleeing from police and seven counts of resisting arrest, misdemeanors; and 24 violations of vehicle and traffic law.

He was treated at Samaritan Hospital for a laceration to his head and then taken to Rensselaer County Jail, where he is being held without bail.